Retired members
If you've been a UNISON member for at least two years on the day you retire and have either received state pension age or get a pension, you can become a retired member.

UNISON retired members enjoy all the benefits of UNISON membership including:
• Legal advice
• Welfare support
• Special discounts and offers on a wide range of financial and other services

UNISON works to raise awareness of issues which concern older people and to influence decision makers. Our priorities include:

  • Pensioner poverty
  • Health care and age discrimination
  • Isolation and mobility issues

We believe our union should reflect the society we live and work in. There are more than 10 million elderly people in the UK. Retired and working members have a shared interest in obtaining decent incomes in older age, a universal health service and the creation of a civilised society.

Today's workers are tomorrow's pensioners and UNISON's members work in public services on which many older people rely.

NHS 60th Anniversary Celebrations

As part of the NHS 60th Anniversary Celebrations, UNISON is looking for retired members who worked in the NHS.

Retired Members' Conference 2008

The Retired Members' Conference 2008 will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Glasgow on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 October 2008.

A Conference Bulletin and forms will be despatched to branches and retired member contacts in the near future and will be available for download from the UNISON Conferences webpage at http://unison.org.uk/conference/docs_list.asp

In the meantime, listed below are some important conference dates for your diary.

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CONTACT DETAILS
• For urgent help and advice at work to go Help at Work.
• The National Officer with responsibility for retired members is Colin Derrig.
UNISON Retired members
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email: c.derrig@unison.co.uk
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Recent documents

Retired members' conference 2008 - bulletin

The bulletin for UNISON's 2008 Retired Members' conference, containing all the relevant documents and forms.
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Advice for Retired Members

Advice on how Retired Members can participate in their local regional and branch LGBT groups.
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Out in UNISON 33 - winter 2007-08

Newsletter on LGBT equality in UNISONThis issue includes understanding gender identity; organising for LGBT equality - new activists course; union learning reps; increasing bi visibility; a guide to the General Political Fund; UNISON retired members; survival in Burma
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Protocol on 'early retired' disabled members applying to NEC under rule C2.6.2

As agreed by the NEC.
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